Turnover: million EUR ()
Country: France
Cafeyn is a digital press application. All the major newspapers and magazines are available in a single application.
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Cafeyn acquires Readly France in the digital kiosk sector 19/06/2024
- Acquisition of Toutabo-epresse by Cafeyn: 4.5 million euros.
- Acquisition objective: To gain access to ePresse publishers and strengthen Cafeyn's position as France's leading news streaming provider.
- Cafeyn catalog after acquisition: Over 2,000 newspapers and magazines.
- Toutabo-epresse customer base: Around 50,000 customers.
- Number of Cafeyn users: Over 2 million users in total (without distinction between free and paid).
- Competition: Vivendi with the launch of PassPresse by Prisma and Canal+.
- Cafeyn project n: Acquire all non-Scandinavian activities of Readly.
- Status of Bonnier News' takeover bid for Readly: Bonnier News holds around 80% but requires 90% to delist Readly.
- Post-acquisition objective for Readly: To split the Scandinavian activities from the rest (UK, Italy, etc.) and integrate them into Cafeyn.
- Readly revenues: Around 60 million euros (Cafeyn is of comparable size).

Cafeyn organizes itself to pursue its founder's disappearing strategy 20/12/2023
- Cafeyn is a news streaming platform that aggregates nearly 3,000 international media and integrates an average of one each week
- Cafeyn has around 2.5 million users in all its markets.
- Death of its chairman and founder, Ari Assuied
- The group has grown from around 30 employees to around 200 today.
- Project to consolidate the digital kiosk market and internationalize Cafeyn
- Ongoing acquisition of competitor Readly in non-Scandinavian markets, including France.
- Bonnier is to acquire 90% of Readly 's capital in order to delist it and enable the sale of its non-Scandinavian activities to Cafeyn (it already owns over 75%).
- This acquisition will make Cafeyn the leading news distribution platform in Europe
- Cafeyn, the news streaming platform, is already present in several countries, including the UK and Canada - both of which are experiencing strong growth -, the USA, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands - where Cafeyn acquired rival Blendle in 2020 - and Luxembourg.
- In France, the arrival of a new competitor, PassPresse, launched by Prisma Media, and the end of the distribution partnership with Canal+ (a subsidiary of Vivendi, like Prisma Media).

Cafeyn founder dies 10/10/2023
- Cafeyn has 200 employees.
- Ari Assuied, Cafeyn's founder and CEO, died aged 45 in Israel.
- LeKiosk, co-founded by Ari Assuied in 2006, became Cafeyn in 2019.
- Cafeyn is the French market leader in digital press kiosks.
- Cafeyn has 3 million active users. Cafeyn is in the process of acquiring the activities of its main rival, Readly, in all non-Scandinavian markets (including France).
- Together, Cafeyn and Readly offer over 7,000 publications worldwide.
- Prisma Media recently launched a rival service called PassPresse.
- Canal+ users have lost access to Cafeyn.

The cards are being reshuffled in the digital kiosk market 15/09/2023
- France's Cafeyn and Sweden's Readly are the main players in the French digital newsstand market
- Prisma Media enters the market with its PassPresse service, priced at 9.99 euros per month. Around 75% of revenues are paid back to publishers.
- Cafeyn, launched in 2006, is distributed by telecom operators such as Bouygues Telecom, SFR and Free, and offers around 2,500 national, regional and magazine daily press titles for 10.99 euros a month.
- The company claims 3 million active users.
- Readly, which belongs to Swedish media conglomerate Bonnier news, defines itself as "Europe's leading online magazine publisher", offers 7,500 titles and has over 450,000 subscribers.
- It expects to generate sales of around 50 million euros by 2022.
- In December 2022, Cafeyn signed a partnership agreement with Bonnier News, under which Cafeyn will take over Readly's non-Scandinavian activities, which account for three quarters of the Swedish group's business.
- The French market is Readly's fourth.
- The company offers 642 French magazines and 96 newspapers.
Financial Data
DUNS: 888788726
Address: 2 RUE DU GAL ALAIN DE BOISSIEU , 75015 PARIS 15
Financial Data:
Year | Turnover (€) | Net Profit (€) | Fiscal Year End | Fiscal Year Duration |
---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | 472 467 242 EUR | 288 685 695 EUR | 31/12/2018 | 12 |
2017 | 499 671 043 EUR | 305 800 225 EUR | 31/12/2017 | 12 |
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